Florida woman is arrested after falsely telling police a Hispanic man sexually assaulted her with a broken broom handle and a box cutter - prompting her friend to confront and KILL the innocent man
By Emily Crane
Daily Mail
May 20, 2019
A Florida woman has been arrested for filing a false sexual assault claim with police, which led to a bizarre chain of events that resulted in her innocent neighbor being killed.
Brittany Sorey, 30, told police last month that a Hispanic man had broken into her apartment in Largo near Tampa and sexually assaulted her.
A police report said Sorey reported that the man 'battered her and vaginally penetrated her with a broken broom handle and a box cutter'.
She repeated those claims when she was later re-interviewed by a detective.
Sorey, who is a mother of six children, had been living at the home with her husband Gerald at the time but had fallen behind on rent, the Smoking Gun reports.
The couple moved out of the home after Sorey told police she had been assaulted and one of their male friends moved in instead.
Sorey took to Facebook on April 20 to write, in a since deleted post, that she was trying to raise money for the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence following the so-called attack.
Then on May 10, the friend who was living in Sorey's old apartment called her to say her neighbor was banging on the front door.
The neighbor wasn't aware the couple had moved out but wanted to confront them over 'money issues'.
Sorey told her friend over the phone that the man banging on the door sounded like the person who had broken in and sexually assaulted her.
When Sorey's friend went outside to try and take a photo of the neighbor, police said the man attacked him.
Police said a confrontation occurred and Sorey's friend killed the man in self defense.
The names of the friend or neighbor have not been released by police.
It is not clear how the neighbor died.
Following her neighbor's death, Sorey admitted to police that she had lied about being sexually assaulted.
She was arrested last Friday and charged with falsely reporting a crime.
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